Sedan Chairs (Text)

Sedan Chairs

There are numerous sedan chairs in the painting. As a sedan chair requires servants to carry it, the passengers in them must be relatively affluent members of society. In fact, virtually all of the sedan chairs in the painting are each accompanied by a veritable entourage of people in its procession.<br/><br/>Here, in particular, we see a procession of two sedan chairs, with a relatively small entourage of servants. In the second sedan chair, we see the woman passenger looking at the street from the window on the sedan chair.